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French MP fined for saying Hitler 'didn't kill enough' Roma

French courts have fined MP and Mayor, Gilles Bourdouleix, €3,000 for saying 'maybe Hitler didn't kill enough' Roma, while confirming a lower court ruling that the remark is a crime against humanity. Local newspaper reports of the comments in July 2013 already forced his resignation from the centrist UDI party.

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Two years on from the highly-controversial EU-Turkey deal, many thousands of refugees are still trapped on Greek islands. One of them offers an open invitation to EU leaders to see their inhospitable conditions at the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos.

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The controversy over the new EU Commission top civil servant is revealing of what is wrong with EU institutions and how they are blocked by national governments, says award-winning Austrian novelist Robert Menasse.